Born: 1958, in Reimer Kordes famous rose nursery, Germany.
Parents: Rosa ‘Robin Hood’ x R. ‘Virgo’.
The parents could never have guessed just how well their ‘baby’ was going do. By 2004, ‘Iceberg’ had been acclaimed the ‘rose of the 20th Century’ and ‘the greatest triumph of any rose breeder for many a long year,’ (Susan Irvine). It won the National Rose Society Gold Medal in 1958 and the Gold Medal in Baden Baden, Germany, the same...
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